‘I walked into my room with a towel around me from showering. I sat on my bed getting ready to rub my hair when a movement over at the window caught my attention. There they were. Little men walking in a line across a branch with a small leap over to my open window. They went across the sill and then jumped down onto what I assume was the water meter next to the house, under my window. I couldn’t wrap my head around what I was seeing. It had to be a trick of the early evening shadows. I leaned forward to get a bit closer even though my room was tiny. Nope, it was small men about eight to ten inches tall. They were wearing what looked like liederhosen. They all wore hats too. The hats were very strange. They looked like boxes made into poorly designed hats. I became so frightened I wanted to run for it but I didn’t want to draw attention to myself. They never acted like they saw me, though I don’t know how that’s possible. I could feel the fear of seeing this getting so strong and then the next thing I know is I’m waking up at the end of my bed with the towel still around me and its totally dark outside.’ ‘They all looked almost the same. They were about right [eight?] inches or so, I could see ratty hair sticking out from under their hats. They had knobby knees and old fashioned type hobnob boots on. I don’t remember seeing socks. They looked like little German men in liederhosens. I always thought they had very strange hats on but I do remember seeing a couple of them with their arms up like they were balancing their hats. I now in hindsight wonder if they were carrying boxes instead. The hats did look like strange boxes.’ ‘They were small men walking in a line. I just assumed they were of the fairy realm.’ ‘[Fairies are] citizens of this planet just like us, only not harmful like us.’
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Missouri, US
1970s
Female: Age 11-20
occasional supernatural experiences
inside a private house
6 pm-9 pm
on my own
no special state reported
no fairy mood reported
loss of sense of time, hair prickling or tingling before or during the experience, unusually vivid memories of the experience